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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?
(a) Leave slavery and end up in bondage to their new bosses.
(b) Run right out of slavery In to soldiery.
(c) Run out of slavery and out of the United States for Canada.
(d) Are freed from slavery and soon end up enslaved to educating themselves.

3. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” what do the colored men in the military say they deserve?
(a) Higher ranking.
(b) More money.
(c) Equal treatment.
(d) Freedom from slavery and the Army.

4. How does “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It” begin?
(a) With a letter from a woman to her slave owner.
(b) With a letter from a wife to her husband.
(c) With a letter from a mother to her son.
(d) With a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a woman in Carlisle, PA.

5. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker would walk home doing mental math on how much she had spent and what would suddenly hit her?
(a) The known sun was setting on the dawning century.
(b) How much she loved the Garden of Eden.
(c) How little she had in her bank account.
(d) How little food she had purchased.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the angels speak, the speaker dares to look at them and sees what?

2. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?

3. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?

4. In "Garden of Eden," why does the narrator's arm get sore?

5. How is love described as pain, when singing "Wade in the Water"?

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